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No, you don’t have to be a graphic artist to
effectively use Adobe Illustrator, even though graphic artists have made Adobe Illustrator
the "industry-standard" illustration software package.
If you do desktop publishing, or need to create documents for print or
Web delivery, you’ll find that Illustrator offers unmatched flexibility in creating
your layouts. Illustrator may be the only software tool you need to create
professional-looking brochures, flyers, Web pages, and more.
The Level 1 workshop introduces the basics of Illustrator. In addition to
creating a graphic logo, you'll learn how to use special type effects (gradients
and "type on a path"), work with imported graphics, and work with body type in
an overall layout.
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- Navigating in Illustrator & working with and customizing
Illustrator panels
- Creating documents utilizing CMYK or RGB color models (and
gamuts)
- Working with the shape tools
- Using the pen tools to create and modify paths
- Working with text
- inserting text
- flowing text on a path
- importing body text
- formatting text with styles
- threading text
- applying hyphenation & inserting typographic characters
- Enhancing documents
- working with fills and strokes
- applying gradients
- applying an envelope to distort text
- importing graphics
- applying graphic styles
- wrapping text
- Exporting Illustrator files
- exporting images for print
- exporting images for the web
- saving images as PDFs
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Adobe Illustrator CS4 Level 1
Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of using your PC (Windows or Mac)
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 6
UIUC CEU’s: 0.6
CPDUs: 6 (Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 6 CPDUs for this
workshop)
Fee: $122 (includes workbook)
Date / Time: Oct. 21 & 23, 2009 (WF); 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Windows User Registration Code: W-2864-E
Mac User Registration Code: M-2865-E
Location: UI Armory Building,
Suite 156 (use NE entrance to Armory)
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In the Level 2 Illustrator workshop, you'll create more complex illustrations,
working with compound paths, layers, symbols, and effects. You'll create a
banner graphic, slice and export it to a web-compatible format, and will also
work through some of the basics of color management and document output.
| Among the topics to be covered are: |
- Creating complex shapes using Pathfinder commands
- Creating compound and offset paths
- Working with symbols, the symbols palette, and symbolism tools
- Organizing objects with layers
- Creating pattern swatches, meshes, and custom brushes
- Applying color to artwork using Live Paint
- Recoloring artwork
- Tracing artwork automatically, using Live Trace
- Creating custom tracing presets
- Converting traced objects to paths
- Creating clipping masks, blends, and 3D effects
- Creating and formatting graphs
- Creating PDF files from your artwork
- Working with variables and datasets (as time allows)
- Working with other output options (as time allows)
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Adobe Illustrator CS3, Level 2
Prerequisite: Adobe Illustrator Level 1 workshop, or equivalent
knowledge
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 5
UIUC CEU’s: 0.5
CPDUs: 5 (Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 5 CPDUs for this
workshop)
Fee: $106 (includes workbook)
Date / Time: Oct. 28 & 30, 2009 (WF); 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Windows User Registration Code: W-2870-E
Mac User Registration Code: M-2871-E
Location: UI Armory Building,
Suite 156 (use NE entrance to Armory)
Registration Form
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